“The Navy or rather The Pentagon and more specifically Congress has been playing a very dangerous game since the early 1990’s and beginning under Poppy Bush and continuing for every administration and congressional session since of sending ships unfit for getting underway to sea.”
To back up your position re Poppy Bush and how he ran our Navy into the ground. Our first “stoppage” happened during Bush I’s term. He and his CIA literally ran our Navy ships and men into this stoppage situation.
48-HOUR STOPPAGE PLANNED BY NAVY
By STEPHEN ENGELBERG, Special to The New York Times
Published: November 15, 1989
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14— After a succession of accidents around the world, the Navy announced today that it was suspending routine operations for 48 hours to review safety procedures with each sailor and aviator.
It was the first time the Navy has taken such a step, officials said, and it reflected the mounting concern over the deaths and injuries sustained by both Navy personnel and civilians in the accidents in the past three weeks.
Navy officials said that the suspension would only affect routine operations and training exercises and that essential military functions, like ship movements in the Persian Gulf and drug interdiction efforts, would not be stopped. All deployed ships, submarines and aircraft would still be available for emergency operations, the officials said. Two More Accidents.
The safety review was ordered early this morning before word was received about a fire today aboard the Inchon, an amphibious assault ship undergoing maintenance in Norfolk, Va. The blaze injured 31 sailors and 8 civilians. The Navy said one sailor was in guarded condition and another was in serious condition.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/15/us/48-hour-stoppage-planned-by-navy.html?mcubz=0
In August 1993 my ship I was assigned to in the late 70’s was operating on three of six generators, No Radar, and had DFM pumping issues for the boilers fuel. In March 1994 when it returned from deployment it had a boiler room explosion at the pier so severe it had to be towed Cold Iron up to Portsmouth. U.S. New and World Report had an article on the conditions but not the explosion which was about two weeks after return. Read the Below Decks Section. https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/940224-cr.htm From my previous professional knowledge I can understand why there was no radar with only three of six generators. It was because no Air Conditioning Units could be put on line. They were the single largest power draw and there were ten of them and in the summer at sea at least six or seven needed to be on line.
In August 1993 my ship I was assigned to in the late 70’s was operating on three of six generators, No Radar, and had DFM pumping issues for the boilers fuel. In March 1994 when it returned from deployment it had a boiler room explosion at the pier so severe it had to be towed Cold Iron up to Portsmouth. U.S. New and World Report had an article on the conditions but not the explosion which was about two weeks after return. Read the Below Decks Section. https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/940224-cr.htm From my previous professional knowledge I can understand why there was no radar with only three of six generators. It was because no Air Conditioning Units could be put on line. They were the single largest power draw and there were ten of them and in the summer at sea at least six or seven needed to be on line.